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Last week we gave you the foundation of the 2012 PokerStars SCOOP schedule, with the site announcing they would soon be finalizing the details of the prominent online poker tournament series. All of the details for the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP for short) at PokerStars, save one, have been finalized by the […]

Bodog Poker may not have the most talented group of poker players on their roster, or a roster sporting a number of impressive resumes, but they do have the most eye-pleasing roster in poker, especially after adding Jeanette “Jay” Tan to their roster this week. Tan, an American-born poker player now living in Hong Kong, […]

If you haven’t heard, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Isaac Haxton (two of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem players on the Internet) began a $1,000,000 freezeout challenge match this weekend. Beginning on Saturday, the two will be playing $200/$400 NLHE for four hours each day until one of the Team PokerStars players has felted the […]

This week PokerStars announced a preliminary schedule for their upcoming Spring Championship of Online Poker (known as the SCOOP for short) and once again there is a little something for everyone in the poker world, with various formats and as has always been the case for the SCOOP tournament series, three separate buy-ins for each […]

This past Sunday PokerStars was swarmed with players as registration for the $6 million guaranteed 6th Anniversary of the Sunday Million swelled to a staggering 33,732 entrants, with over 50 of those entrants being Team PokerStars Pros. The tournament handily broke the guaranteed prize-pool amount, topping off at $6,760,400, with first place worth a cool […]

PokerStars version of Rush Poker (first launched by Full Tilt Poker and up until recently was considered a patented product; a view that is now being widely challenged) is still in its Beta Testing phase, but all things considered, so far so good for the fast-paced ZOOM Poker that allows players to get in up […]

From March 15, 2012 to March 25, 2012 PokerStars will be running a brand new tournament series geared towards the site’s lowest-limit players, called the MicroMillions. Over the 11 days of the MicroMillions tournament series PokerStars will be hosting 100 separate events, with buy-ins ranging from a mere $.10 + $.01 (yes that’s 11 cents) […]

Over the past week PokerStars has been expanding its reach in the European Poker market. With their newly acquired Malta license, the world’s largest online poker room can now compete in the popular Finland and Sweden markets without forcing their players to pay hefty taxes -previously PokerStars players were subject to 50% taxation on their […]

From March 4th through the 25th the Merge Gaming Network will be the place for poker tournaments, as the #1 US-friendly online poker network will be hosting their first major tournament series, dubbed Poker Maximus. The Poker Maximus series will feature a total of 70 tournaments over the 22-Days of the series, with a total […]

Sky Poker kicked off its 5th Birthday Celebration on February 6, 2012, the five year anniversary of the popular online poker rooms launch date. During the celebration Sky Poker will be running a number of promotions, offering players the chance to participate in exclusive freerolls and win cash and prizes with everything from iPads to […]